LBGT Lit

Please read the 2 SLJ articles
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6296527.html

http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/printissue/currentissue/894412-427/lgbtq_lit_speaking_out.html.csp

     The American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table sponsors the Stonewall Book Awards honors non-fiction and ficiton books that have exceptional merit relating to the gay/ lesbian/ bisexual/ transgendered experience. Isabel Miller's Patience and Sarah received the first award in 1971. The books are adult books that may work in a HS library.

David Levithan’s groundbreaking 2003 feel-good novel Boy Meets Boy was the first teen novel about accpetance and celebration of homosexual high school realtionships written in this humorous style. Set in a high school where gays are accpeted and the popular football quaterback is also a cross-dressing homecoming queen the story is about dating and the sexual orientation of the main characters makes no difference.

            Since Boy Meets Boy a few other funny novels where sexuality is not presetned as a problem and homosexulaity is a given have hit the scence. In a few books a gay teen and his female best friend both have a crush on the same guy, in others students form a gay-straight alliance in their high school.

Totally Joe by James Howe

Written as a school assignment, thirteen-year-old Joe Bunch writes in his “alphabiography” about coming out to his supportive family and friends, starting a Gay-Straight Alliance group and heartbreak when Colin ends there relationship because he is not ready to go public.

The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson

Nina Bermudez, Avery Dekker and Melanie “Mel” Forest’s close friendship dramatically changes during the summer before their senior year of high school in Saratoga Springs, New York when Mel accepts that she is a lesbian and begins a romantic relationship with Avery while Nina falls in love with Steve Carson during a summer leadership program at Stanford University.

My Most Excellent Year: a Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, & Fenway Park by Steve Kluger

Told through diary entries, instant messages, a school assignment, memos and e-mails three eleventh graders write about their freshman year when baseball fan T.C. falls for Alejandra, Augie realizes he is gay and Alejandra discovers her passion for acting. 

Absolutely, Positively Not…. By David Larochelle

At first sixteen-year-old Steve DeNarski denies he is gay by hanging out with the jocks and dating every available girl in his school. When he finally accepts that he is gay his best friend, Rachel, and his dad are supportive but he finds real solace when attends a gay and lesbian support group.

Kissing Kate by Lauren Myracle

Sixteen-year-old Lissa is confused and lonely when her best friend Kate snubs her after the two share a passionate kiss at a party until Lissa befriends Ariel and accepts that she is a lesbian.

A Really Nice Prom Mess by Brian Sloan

Cameron Hayes, an in-the-closet gay, at a conservative all boy high school in Washington D.C. disastrous prom begins when his sexy date, Virginia McKinley, threatens to out Cam to his parents. Cam’s misadventures continue when he gets in a fight with his football player boyfriend, Shane Wilson, leaves the prom with a bi-sexual drug-dealer, is involved in a police chase and comes to serious revelation that he needs to be honest to his family and friends.

Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

New York University freshman and childhood friends, Naomi and Ely find their close friendship strained when Ely, who is gay, breaks the “no kiss rule” by kissing Naomi’s boyfriend, Bruce the second. After Bruce decides to date Ely Naomi confronts the truth that Ely will never love her the way she loves him.

Is He or Isn’t He by John Hall

At the beginning of their senior year longtime best friends Paige and Anthony are both interested in making the cute new boy at Peppington Prep their boyfriend as soon as they figure out whether he is gay or straight.

The Straight Road to Kylie by Nico Medina

After gossip quickly spreads in Winter Park, Florida that out-and-proud seventeen-year-old Jonathan Parish got drunk and had sex with a female friend rich Laura Schulberg offers Jonathan a trip to London to see his idol Kylie Minogue in concert if he will pretend to be her boyfriend for the rest of the school year.

M or F? by Lisa Papademetriou and Chris Tebbetts

In alternative chapters best friends and brain twins, Marcus Beauregard and Frannie Falconer explain how they both got a massive crush on Jeffrey Osborne when they chat with him online.

Getting It by Alex Sanchez

Inspired by the television program Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, 15-year-old Texan Carlos Amoroso asks Sal, a gay student, to give him a make-over that will get the attention of his crush, Roxy. Sal agrees to assist Carlos under the condition that Carlos helps form a Gay-Straight Alliance. 

Freak Show by James St James

After seventeen-year-old Billy Bloom, a drag queen, transfers into a conservative high school in Florida he is verbally and physically attacked until the football hero, Flip Kelly becomes his friend and demands that his classmates accept Billy. When Billy and Flip get into an argument after their first kiss Billy decides to run for homecoming queen.